Bloopers

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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“Apparently her [Janet Jackson’s] wardrobe person came up with it. Justin [Timberlake] literally rehearsed it once in her dressing room before they went out onstage. I think the big mistake was that he was supposed to pull it off on [Gonna have you naked by the end of this] 'song' and he pulled it off on 'end.'” - Beth McCathy-Miller, Director

Interviewees discuss some of the unplanned occurrences that have made it on the air.

Highlights

Beth McCarthy-Miller on Ashlee Simpson's lip synch error on Saturday Night Live

03:44

Dick Van Dyke on some mishaps on the early days on television involving sled dogs

Brad Garrett on outtakes from Everybody Loves Raymond

01:04

Bob Barker on the most memorable Price is Right contestant (who lost her tube top)

01:26

Fred Rogers on working as floor manager at NBC on The Kate Smith Hour

02:42

Nanette Fabray on live, on-air mishaps during Caesar's Hour involving Sid Caesar

03:45

Who talked about this topic

Steve Allen

Steve Allen on live television mishaps on The Steve Allen Show

00:52

Richard L. Bare

Richard L. Bare on working with "Arnold the pig" on Green Acres

02:00

Bob Barker

Bob Barker on the most memorable Price is Right contestant (who lost her tube top)

01:26

Bonnie Bartlett

Bonnie Bartlett on mishaps while acting on Love of Life which was broadcast live

01:18

Milton Berle

Milton Berle on memorable live television mishaps on Texaco Star Theater

08:35

Milton Berle on a memorable live television mishap with Red Buttons on Texaco Star Theater

03:36

Milton Berle on the mishap with the "Barber of Seville" sketch on Texaco Star Theater and how it affected the subsequent sketch

04:26

Tom Bettag

Tom Bettag on the 1987 incident of Dan Rather walking off the air during CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

03:11

Haskell Boggs

Haskell Boggs on mishaps and close calls during his time as a director of photography

00:41

Al Borden

Al Borden on problems with props and guest stars on The Colgate Comedy Hour

02:10

Al Borden on mishaps involving props on The Colgate Comedy Hour

03:36

Carol Burnett

Carol Burnett on her favorite moment on The Garry Moore Show - on her last day on the show when the cast purposely ruined a scene to see how she'd react

04:06

Sid Caesar

Sid Caesar on accidentally being dressed in the wrong costume in a sketch "live" on Your Show of Shows

02:16

Sid Caesar on a painful gaffe on "live TV" during a Your Show of Shows parody of High Noon

01:42

Sid Caesar on forgetting Basil Rathbone's name while introducing him as the guest star on Your Show of Shows

00:43

Marge Champion

Marge Champion on mishaps on live television and appearing on Person to Person

04:18

Marge Champion on losing her dress in front of the Queen of England

02:22

Roy Clark

Roy Clark on a mishap on live television

02:44

Henry Colman

Henry Colman on working in live television, where an actor thought the dress rehearsal was the aired show

00:56

John Conte

John Conte on mishaps during the broadcast of Matinee Theater, and on the cancellation of the show

03:02

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite on some of the bloopers that happened when filming live television for the program You Are There involving a historical re-creation of the Hindenburg disaster

03:00

Walter Cronkite on an awkward moment during the first Telestar sattelite transmission while interviewing Dwight Eisenhower and Marshall Montgomery

03:01

Billy Crystal

Billy Crystal on the "Willie and Phil" sketches with Christopher Guest on Saturday Night Live

03:42

Bill Dana with Emerson College

Bill Dana on a live television mishap

01:59

Hugh Downs

Hugh Downs on a live radio slip-up and the lesson he learned from it

01:33

Hugh Downs on a live television slip-up and breaking up on primetime TV; on breaking up on radio and television

03:08

Nanette Fabray

Nanette Fabray on working with the writers of Caesar's Hour, and on an on-air mishap where she was injured

04:15

Nanette Fabray on live, on-air mishaps during Caesar's Hour involving Sid Caesar

03:45

Murray Fromson

Murray Fromson on covering Barry Goldwater's 1964 whistlestop tour, and an on-air error that occurred during Roger Mudd's reporting on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

06:33

Brad Garrett

Brad Garrett on outtakes from Everybody Loves Raymond

01:04

Greg Garrison

Greg Garrison on dealing with the network and Standards & Practices on The Dean Martin Show

03:15

Frank Gifford

Frank Gifford on bloopers from the broadcast booth

00:37

Lesli Linka Glatter

Lesli Linka Glatter on mishaps and pranks that happened while she was directing ER

01:36

Jerry Goldsmith

Jerry Goldsmith on where he would sit and conduct the orchestra during live Playhouse 90 broadcasts for director John Frankenheimer and on mishaps on live television

04:12

Walter E. Grauman

Producer-director Walter Grauman on the flubs made by Lights, Camera, Action (1950) emcee Walter Woolf King on "live" TV

01:24

Director Walter Grauman on working with boxer Primo Carnera on Matinee Theater: "Frankenstein" (airdate: 2/5/57), in which an overzealous and unrehearsed Carnera (playing Frankenstein's monster) threw a stuntman through the scenery

03:28

Director Walter Grauman on how a superstition led Sylvia Sidney to forget the final line on "live" TV for a Matinee Theater show [tentatively identified by Grauman as "Death of a Salesman" but possibly "The Gift and the Giver" (airdate: 12/16/57)]

01:23

Larry Hagman

Larry Hagman on a mistake made by a fellow actor on a live broadcast of The Edge of Night

02:45

Larry Hagman on a joke played on him by Patrick Duffy during Dallas

00:34

Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris on mistakes made on live television

04:21

Don Hastings

Don Hastings on on-air mishaps during Captain Video and His Video Rangers

02:29

Marilu Henner

Marilu Henner on Taxi bloopers

01:18

Don Herbert

Don Herbert on live, on-air mishaps on Watch Mr. Wizard

03:32

Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller on mishaps that occurred while directing "live" television, including NBC Matinee Theater and early CBC shows in Canada

01:42

Arthur Hiller on losing a camera while filming a "live" television show in Canada

01:41

Ron Howard

Ron Howard on a mistake he made on live TV as a child actor on Playhouse 90

01:32

Lamont Johnson

Lamont Johnson on acting opposite Ethel Barrymore on Climax!

04:49

Lamont Johnson on the challenges of directing live broadcasts of NBC Matinee Theater, and on appearing in early televised Shakespeare adaptations

07:37

Lamont Johnson on directing John Carradine in the NBC Matinee Theater production of "Dracula"

01:38

H. Wesley Kenney

H. Wesley Kenney on a technical foul-up during live broadcasts of Night Beat

05:30

H. Wesley Kenney on a technical foul-up during a live broadcast of Captain Video and His Video Rangers

02:12

Don Roy King

Don Roy King on an on-air blooper on Midday Live

03:44

Lynwood King

Lynwood King on on a live television blooper involving Sid Caesar

04:28

Ernest Kinoy

Ernest Kinoy on a mishap on the set of The Alcoa Hour

10:39

Don Knotts

Don Knotts on a moment in "live" TV in the 1950s when fellow actor Les Damon went up on his lines on soap opera Search for Tomorrow

00:57

Jack LaLanne

Jack LaLanne on live TV mishaps and working on live TV with The Jack LaLanne Show

00:27

Perry Lafferty

Perry Lafferty on James Cagney appearing on Robert Montgomery Presents and on Cagney forgetting his lines

02:35

Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury on getting a case of the giggles in rehearsal on a show with Richard Kiley, likely Lux VideoTheatre's "Operation Weekend"

02:00

Jack Lemmon

Jack Lemmon on the worst thing that happened to him on live television

01:41

Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson on his (somewhat disastrous) first day on a live television set, which took place during a training program he took part in while a student at American University

02:31

Sam Lovullo

Sam Lovullo on the bloopers of Hew Haw, often left in, and on the set design of the show

06:05

Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lument on the technical challenges of doing Danger live, and on mishaps during the broadcasts

05:17

Martin Manulis

Martin Manulis on a mishap during a live broadcast of Climax!, when an extra who was supposed to be playing dead got up and walked away in the middle of a scene

02:05

Jackie Mason with Emerson College

Jackie Mason on his infamous middle finger incident on The Ed Sullivan Show

04:34

Richard Matheson

Richard Matheson on appearing in the miniseries Captains and the Kings as President Garfield

02:41

Chuck McCann with Emerson College

Chuck McCann on his harrowing experience guest-hosting The Sandy Becker Show

15:30

Beth McCarthy-Miller

Beth McCarthy-Miller on on-air mishaps on Saturday Night Live and the stress of directing it

03:40

Beth McCarthy-Miller on Ashlee Simpson's lip synch error on Saturday Night Live

03:44

Al Michaels

Al Michaels on bloopers or flubs on Monday Night Football

01:22

JP Miller

JP Miller on live television mishaps

02:43

Walter C. Miller

Walter C. Miller on a memorable blooper during a live broadcast of The Aldrich Family

01:20

Walter C. Miller on a blooper on The Bell Telephone Hour episode "The Music of Romance" with Helen Hayes and Farley Granger

03:11

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno on various mishaps that happened during live broadcasts

03:01

Robert Mott

Robert Mott on various live television bloopers including on Studio One, Betty Furness' Westinghouse commercial, and The Web

12:46

Robert Mott on a Captain Kangaroo blooper

02:22

Frank Nastasi

Frank Nastasi on The Soupy Sales Show naked girl prank

02:29

Alan Neuman

Alan Neuman on memorable bloopers on Kraft Television Theatre

04:59

Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy recalling that Lloyd Bridges accidentally swore on live TV

00:28

Leonard Nimoy on James Coburn oversleeping for a call on M Squad but stardom was around the corner

01:40

Arthur Penn

Arthur Penn on bloopers on Playhouse 90

02:00

Don Pike

Don Pike on bloopers on live television he witnessed

03:45

Charlotte Rae

Charlotte Rae on a blooper she witnessed on The Ed Sullivan Show, and on a blooper she was involved with on Appointment With Adventure

02:21

Charlotte Rae on a blooper she was involved with on The DuPont Show of the Month

02:27

Hector Ramirez

Hector Ramirez on bloopers on The Carol Burnett Show

01:08

Gene Reynolds

Gene Reynolds on mishaps during live television

01:15

Gene Reynolds on mishaps during live television

01:15

Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson on dealing with the early equipment at his first television station

02:17

Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers on working as floor manager at NBC on The Kate Smith Hour

02:42

Andy Rooney

Andy Rooney on some of the mishaps he witnessed on live television, particularly on Calendar

02:28

Thomas W. Sarnoff

Thomas W. Sarnoff on a live TV blooper during the airing of an episode of Marshal of Gunsight Pass (1950)

01:30

Jan Scott

Jan Scott on mishaps she witnessed on live television, and on going to work for the NBC station in Philadelphia

05:28

Jan Scott on mishaps in live productions she worked on

03:22

Paul Shaffer

Paul Shaffer on musical guest John Sebastian stopping his vocals after microphone feedback on Saturday Night Live's live broadcast

01:27

Jack Shea

Jack Shea on mishaps during the era of live television

01:28

Sid Smith

Sid Smith on live mishaps on the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Universe pageants

01:35

Leonard Stern

Leonard Stern on Jackie Gleason, who memorized his lines, making a mistake on a commercial for Schick

01:43

Maxine Stuart

Maxine Stuart on live television mishaps

00:27

George Takei

George Takei on working on a Playhouse 90 where an actor forgot his lines and pantomimed until he remembered

03:56

Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel on actor Chet Roble accidentally referring to sponsor Manor House Coffee as rival Maxwell House Coffee on Studs' Place during a "live" commercial

02:43

Stanford Tischler

Stanford Tischler on editing the blooper reels for M*A*S*H

00:09

Ret Turner

Ret Turner on a wardrobe mishap during Matinee Theater

00:59

Dick Van Dyke

Dick Van Dyke on some mishaps on the early days on television involving sled dogs

Helen Wagner

Helen Wagner on mishaps that happened on live television

02:37

Clint Walker

Clint Walker on being overly tired on the set of Cheyenne and misspeaking a line about gun butts.

04:16

Tucker Wiard

Tucker Wiard on bloopers from The Carol Burnett Show

02:02

Alan Zweibel

Alan Zweibel on the disastrous, primetime Saturday Night Live "Live from Mardi Gras" special

03:12

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